--- Rob Schaap <rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au> wrote: >
On this I absolutely agree with you, Christopher.
> The hostility with which
> your attempts at discussion were met has been a
> source of depression for
> me, too.
That's a shame. I in fact *am* a gratuitously rude bastard, and I don't profess a political theory based on solidarity, but even so ....
I'll just say in clarification, that "Captain Cyborg" is a technical term used by the excellent IT industry newsletter The Register, to describe people who espouse wild transhuman cyborg theories in public. The website http://www.kevinwarwick.org.uk refers.
> If I help to drive
> you off, I am
> effectively saying I'm not interested in all those
> other folks either.
This ain't true. Hayek is represented admirably here by Justin from time to time, and the rest of the libertarians by Matt Cramer, who as well as making up his own arguments rather than hearing them on the radio, is not such a delicate orchid that he can't dish it out and take it a bit. I'm interested in them. But if someone's coming in talking about "liberals", "spending more tax dollars on foreign aid", "allow people to burgle your home because they were brought up poor", then I don't think I'm a million miles off track in spotting the political equivalent of a Mormon missionary.
>
> Miserably yours,
> Rob.
buck up old chap
dd
>
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